At this point, time to cut cut cut. Sawz All through the bushing, the rubber then the bolt. Do this about 1/2 inch from the flange on both ends so the center drops out. Cut the rubber away from the remaining bushing enough to allow the blade inside.

Carefully start a cut on the remaining external bushing ring but do not finish it through. Do this in two places about 90 degrees apart. Take a chisel and just outside one of your partial cuts, hammer the cut toward the center, the other cut will allow the outer bushing ring to collapse and fall free without damage or bending of the flanges.

Installation of new bushings should include use of the special tool but barring that, devise a half cylinder spacer that holds the flanges apart and keeps them from getting bent and can be removed after the bushng is in place. Then use a 1/2 inch bolt long enough to go through both the bushing and the flanges and wrench the new into place. Really heavy duty washers are needed. You might even have to make your own out of 1/4 inch steel. Watch the orientaton of the bushings and torque all bolts AFTER the vehicle weight is on the suspension componenets.

Good Luck, Duane

Unfortunatly those bolts rust in there HARD!!! The simplest way is to cut the head off with a torch, then spread the mount enough to squeeze them out, then change the bushings as per normal. Failing that, if you can get a vise or other large squeezing device up there, you may be able to push the bolt into a socket, which will hold the brackets from bending too badly. Experience says this will be a fight. The other thing which sometimes works is to actually tighten the nut before attempting to loosen it. If the steel liner of the bushing is held tight, forcing the bolt to turn as you tighten it the rust may break loose. On a badly rusted one, the torch is likely the final solution.